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What was your first vehicle and who paid for it?

MY first vehicle was a 1995 5.0 mustang in 2000. in HS I was loaned 2 vehicles from my Dad's collection of craptacular POS trucks. A 70 F100 and a 85 F150 300 6 granny gear. Both were the burnout kings of my graduating class!

Year 1995
Make Ford
Model Mustang 5.0 5 speed
Who Paid for it ME
How old was it when you got it? 5 years old
How old were you when you got it? 18
Do you still have it? Hell no
Details
Pics?
 
Year 88
Make Ford
Model Mustang GT 5 spd
Who paid Split cost ($2k ea) with dad
How old was it when you got it? 8 years old
How old were you when you got it? 15
Do you still have it? No
Details originally had blue stripe and turbine wheels. Removed stripe/repainted lower ground effects in the garage and put a set of junkyard pony wheels on it. Typical high school Flowmasters

No pics of car but was identical to this one

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Year: 1956
Make: Chevy
Model: Belair
Who Paid for it: I paid for it $700
How old was it when you got it?: 22 Years old
How old were you when you got it?: 16
Do you still have it?: No
Details
Pics?: No Pics

Someone had butchered it pretty good, The body was decent, but interior was shit, Someone had put a 327 and a 3 speed auto.
I painted it and added American Mags, A B&M ratchet shifter, swapped out the 327 with another 327 and a dual quad manifold. cut the front springs to lower the nose.
then had the bright idea to weld the hood and fenders together, drove it through High school, sold it in 1982 for $1000.
 
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1975 amc matador...yellow with black vinyl top...my buddies called it the bruised banana :lmao:

was 15 almost 16 and I paid $750.00 for it. and spent the rest of my paychecks keeping it in the road...

did teach me how to read a Chilton manual.:homer:
 
KungFooMASTA said:
What was your first vehicle and did you pay for it or did Mommy and Daddy?

Year 1985
Make CHEVY
Model IROC-Z
Who Paid for it ME!
How old was it when you got it? 12 MILES OLD
How old were you when you got it? 20
Do you still have it? FUCK NO!!1!
Details IT WAS A MECHANICAL POS! :mad3:
Pics?
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I put a 1kW stereo system in with two CD players.
 
Year- 1973
Make- MG
Model- B-GT
Who paid for it- Dad made the down payment and I made the monthly's.
How old was it when I got it- new salesman driven dealer car.
How old was I when I got it- 15 but I had a job. And I retired t
last year from the same company.
Do I still have it- No. Traded it a year later for a used 73 Gran Prix 455 tire fryer.
Details- Pretty good car until overdrive went out.
Pics-Lost in a house fire.
 
Year- 1963
Make- Chevy
Model- C-10 Stepside shortbed
Who paid for it- my Grandparents
How old was it when I got it- 26 years. Purchased in 1979
How old was I when I got it- 15
Do I still have it- No. Traded it for a 1974 Firebird Only time without a truck.
Details- Big window cab with a 350/4 speed Muncie. Should of never traded it
Pics-Lost in a boating accident
 
-1960
-VW
-bug
-I bought it
-i was 14y/o
-Bought in 1995
-I still have it
-No pics. Its sitting in primer on the back burner in my shop. She's trying to decide if she wants static drop again or if she wants some inflatables.

Oh.. it was $500 when I bought it, I paid for it but my dad helped quite a bit along the way. It was a fun project for us. I loved VeeWee's, he hated it. Especially when I'd blow an engine once a month.. because rev to moon!!
 
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I had a '74 Mustang II that I got in Jan 1988 a couple months after I turned 17. 4 cyl / 3 speed auto. It couldn't go up any hills due to its extreme gutlessness, but it was wheels.
 
81 f250. I paid for it. It was 19 years old, I was 15. No longer have it. It had turbine mags and 33x12.5 bfg mall terrains, a 400 and a c6. Was a stone mason's truck before i got it, so the suspension, simply put, didn't.
But it would smoke tires if I danced on the gas pedal just right to keep the carb from coughing and choking, and i got a free canopy, and put a couch in the box. Smoked a lot of weed in it, and touched a few girls in ways their fathers would have killed me for. I could barely afford fuel and insurance, so I sold it to a buddy for a snowboard and $1200. He got coked up and tore up his folks back field doing donuts, then took the box off for some reason. It was never driven again, and we scrapped it around 10 years later. We scrapped the box and canopy this spring. They were a motorcycle parts shed for awhile.
 
Kriptonite said:
Year- 1973
Make- MG
Model- B-GT
Who paid for it- Dad made the down payment and I made the monthly's.
How old was it when I got it- new salesman driven dealer car.
How old was I when I got it- 15 but I had a job. And I retired t
last year from the same company.
Do I still have it- No. Traded it a year later for a used 73 Gran Prix 455 tire fryer.
Details- Pretty good car until overdrive went out.
Pics-Lost in a house fire.
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You worked 46 years for the same company? :eek:
 
'82 Buick Regal that my Aunt gave me in 1993. Had a bad coolant leak that I remembered to check not so often.
 
1974 BMW 2002

My mom bought it. My Dad said don’t buy it. I think she paid $700 for it in 1992?

I jacked it up for an oil change at the jacking location. I came back thirty minutes later after the oil drained and the jack penetrated the jacking point because of the rust.

I did learn to drive a manual trans and learned how to do burn outs on that POS.
 
2000 extended Cab XLT Ranger, 4.0L/5speed/4x4. paid $0, it was my fathers, he gave it to me in 2003 so he had a reason to buy himself a new car. You always need a truck and it was a requirement that everyone's first car in my family was a manual so it was perfect.
 
1977 Chevy Corvette
I was 8 or 9 years old.
This was around 1993.
I mowed all of my neighbors fields every summer using a walk behind “billy goat” high weed mower from the age of 6 on. Saved every penny and purchased the vette for $700 from my uncles buddy. Bad engine, but overall a clean car.
Installed new bearings, seals, rings by myself the same year and got it running. I was in it total around $1000. Sold it for $2400 I believe.

Gave mom and dad $500 for letting me use their power, allowing me to make a huge mess and overall supporting me.

I purchased 2 International pickups and 1 Jeep cj2a with the rest. Fixed each and sold for a significant profit by age 12.

By 16, I had bought and sold 9 cars/trucks/ jeeps.
 
A '74 Plymouth Satellite. It was $300 and honestly don't remember how it was payed for. I seem to remember paying for half of it and at '16 it seemed like such a big amount of money. Car was a pile of shit, bondo 2" deep and a 318 with a grossly oversized Holley 4 barrel carb, it never did run right and the car would stall out when it got too hot. Didn't know any better to just get a proper sized carb, I was 16 and thought the Holley looked really cool. I've never had a better sounding stereo than the POS Kraco with Sparkomatic 6x9's cranking Megadeth... That might just be the warm nostalgia of cruising around aimlessly with friends, but I'm sticking to it
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Year: 1983
Make: Toyota
Model: Pickup
Who Paid for it: Spent 2000 I saved working construction
How old was it when you got it? 31
How old were you when you got it? 16
Do you still have it? Nope sold in 2018
Details:
Spent my summer savings on this first gen the week before my junior year started. 2 weeks later I blew the 22r and spent another year riding the bus to school and saving to rebuild it. I bought it with lift blocks in the rear, add a leaf front, and a welded rear end. I sold it when I left town for school with a built 22r, 23 spline duals, detroits, chevy 63 rear, tg springs up front, and other typical Toyota goodies.

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my red Toyota pickup, mom and dad paid a few grand for it sometime around when they split, dad drove it for a year until I got my lic 2001 or 2002 or so, I then had to make payments on it and buy it from them, took a few years until it was actually *mine*

1987 Toyota pickup
4cyl
std cab
stock as stock could be

pics are on the other computer

finally sold it last fall to a guy who used some bits to fix his and hauled the rest off to scrap. I was >< close to putting the drivetrain from my van into it and converting it to a V8 2wd mini truck with the roached out body :laughing:

didn't have the energy to do that, put the van and the pickup up for a bit above scrap prices, truck sold, van didn't, now I drive it and it's a riot. considering I've bought a car about every 6 months over the last ~20 years, that was the one that I owned the longest. don't regret getting rid of it, it was less useful after having a kid and needing more space than a std cab, but I certainly would have been wheeling sooner if I didn't cut it up. miss that, but apparently not enough to finish my current pile in a timely fashion
 
1964 ford f100. It was 13 years old when I acquired it. I was 17. It was my Dads work truck, and run around truck, but had a habit of eating valves. Probably because of poor tuning. He had a 390 put in it around 1973. Replaced the 292 Y-block. A couple of years later, it needed valves. He had a valve job done. A year or so later, it needed another. It sat for quite a while. Finally, I asked my dad if I could have teh truck if I fixed it. A few weeks later, he grumbled a bit and told me I could. I had teh heads off that night. First time I had ever worked on something like that, because my dad, as good as he was, was not the worlds best mechanic. A couple of weeks, and $80, I had totally rebuilt heads. Put it back together, bought a small four barrel, and it was running. I drove it a couple of years, until my oldest brother wanted to "Show itto his friend" and blew the engine in it. I was going away on a church mission, so was not able to repair it in time, otherwise I would have.
So, yes he did buy it in the strictest sense of the term. I ended up earning it through sweat equity, though. I also drove him to work for the whole time I owned it, becuse we worked at the same place.
 
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